Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

Olivier Certner writes:

> > We need to find a contemporary and useful answer to "What is FreeBSD?"
>
> I think you've answered part of that satisfactorily in your initial mail already:
>
> > Delivering a single consistent userland with the kernel has stood
> > us well for three decades, and we should stick with that.
>
> I'll add:
> - A system that is easy to build and tweak in practice (for developers at the very least).

But what are the boundaries of this "system" of which you talk ?

I am more or less responsible for nearly two hundred computers
running FreeBSD right now.  Only two of those have zero ports/packages
installed, one monitors my floor heating system, the other firewalls
some old crap.

To me "src+kernel" is just the foundations.

"A system" is what people build on top of the foundations.

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